North Carolina Newspapers

, .is ' ' 1 j i i j v ' 1 J'.1 he) .A i . , ; w w v THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER OF MADISON COUNTY VOL.34 8 Paget MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, AUG UST 22, 1935 PRICE $1.00 A YEAR CRIMINAL TERM OF SUPERIOR COURT TO CONVENE MONDAY RICE AND LUNSFORD TO BE TRIED; ABOUT 100 CASES ON DOCKET Judge John M. Oglesby Preside To Bv KENNETH SILVER V Judee John M. Oglesby will pre side at the August term of criminal court that will convene here Monday. Three murder cases are scheduled to be tried, although one of them will probably be reduced to a term i of manslaughter. James Lunsf ord. 60-year-old ranch er of DeQuincey, La., will be tried for the alleged killing 36 years ago of Eli "Bud" Lunsford, his cousin. The shootinfef took place at John Ran dall's sawmill in the Big Pine Cresk section. LulLsford, after shooting his cousin, made his escape into the mountains and later made hw way to the West Virginia coal fields from which he and his wife who had fol lowed him went into Louisiana where they assumed the aliases of Mr. ana Mrs. George W. rarnklin. Luns i'ord became a prominent rancher. I Soon after, cltling there they adopted a daughter, Mary, from a Catholic convent near their home. James Lunsford is alleged to have shot his cousin in the. presence 01 James Roberts of the pig Pine sec tion John W. Randall, Sr., now serv ing a 15 to 17 year sentence for the killing last December 24 of George tild Cousins, of Lockhart, S. C. Here Plemmons of Barnard, and Mrs. Ma tofore neither the defense nor the prosecution has been able to get Mrs. Cousins to appear as a witness. This leaves only James Roberts to tes tify unless Randall be returned here from state's prison at Raleigh. Jack Rice is scheduled to be tried for the alleged killing of McKinley Shelton of the Shelton Laurel section almost five years ago. Rice was sen tenced three years ago to serve 10 to 15 years for the killing and from tn in win for assault on Del- bert Shelton. brother of the slain A new trial was gramveu ? u, man -te.. , . t cua fAn whan rn r isr.i4..i'iLTM4-Mn kAnaohreoir nun iri!1!?"1 i-1 a t,w tilled Shelton when the two quarreled over dime in a poker game at "Delbert Shelton's home Tench Edwards is booked for mur der in connection with the death last winter of Lutner Kanaaii oi w Itine i Creek Bection. Randall was killed when a small truck driven by Edwards overturned on ttte L,i"ie Laurel Road. The charge will prob ably be changed to manslaughter. DAkavt rv Will UC U1CU bribery at this term of court. At the Mav term Judge Wilson Wartick ordered him held under $1,000 bond after the court learned that ne nan sent a pair of shoes to a defense wit ness in the case of State versus Star lin Chandler charged with assault up on Norton. Judge Warhck refused to hear the case. ' There are 74 other cases on docket to be tried this term, They are: H. IP. Campbell, false pretense; Wade Treadway. false pretense; Ben Shel ton, assault with intent to kill; Ho bart Taffey, slander and assault on a female; Clyde Brooks, violation of prohibition laws;.Ed Silver, operating a car while intoxicated; Wade Riddle, false pretense; Carl Roberts, house breaking; Mitchell Gosnell. manufact- a"d WcerTy; Fred Manning; Dell -p.imo manufacturing; Steve- Luns ford. profane language; Frank Pre nell, manufacturing; Bonnie Parton Gosnell, sale liquor; Gladys Gosnell, sale liquor; Dolly Gosnell, sale liquor; Ernest Gosnell, sale liquor: Mitchell Gosnell, sale liquor; Ma? Moore Gos nelL. sale liquor; Major Lowe, viola tion of prphibition laws; Harve Rice, larceny; Horace Rice, receiving stolen property. Enos Letterman, violation of pro hibition laws; Skiler Gosnell, dis posing of mortgaged property; Pre low Johnson, violation of prohibition laws; Dora Davis, violation of pro hibition laws; Starlin Chandler, as soult with a deadly weapon ; Bob Nor ton, assault with a deadly weapon; Glen HJran and Ed Goforth, assault with a deadlyi weapon; J. T. Ballard ssault with a deadly weapon with in tent to kill; A. L. Ballard, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill; Floyd Davis, violation of prohibition laws; Arthur Woody, house breaking and larceny; Clarence Cody, carry ing concealed weapons; Molt Hamp ton, violation of ,prohibition laws; D. L. Griffith, operating car while in toxicated, reckltf driving, and as sault with a deadly weapon. Harry Anderson, violation of prohibiten laws; Dennie Gentry, assault on an officer: Cecil Vauehn, violation ot prohibition laws: Arliss Suttles, vio lation of prohibition laws and carry ing conc&aled weapons; John McLain, assault with a deadlv weapon; M. D Phillips, assault with deadly weapon; Floyd Davis, violation of prohibition laws; Johnny Edmonds, operating a car while intoxicated: Ed Silver op- eratmg car while intoxicated. Howard McLain, assault with a deadly weapon; James F. Hartmn, ab andonment; C. N. Rockett, injury to personal property; Albert Teague re moving line fence; G. E. Grenetter, transporting; Fred iFreanell, trans porting; J. M. Phillips, housebreak and larceny; Clyde Swaney, trespass; Jefferson Swaggerty, transporting; Clay Blue, assault with a deadly weapon; U. H. Ferguson, larceny; Otho Merrell. abandonment; Floyd Mcintosh, manufacturing ;H. E. Hun ter, manufacturing; Woodrow Greg ory, assault and operating car in toxicated; Ronald Shelton, trans porting; Gerald Davis, robbery; Bus ts1 Jones robbefjs Arthur, Woody, larceny James Reuben, ueayerp GLEANINGS From the Dailies B S, M. H. Jr In Lot Angela th Roer family was together yesterday once again but with a great and solemn differ ence. Elaborate funeral prepara tions are being made for Will the man whose death in the plane crash in Alaska with Wiley Post last week shocked a nation. . . . And in Oklaho-, ma City sorrowful tribute was being iPaid yesterday to the dauntless liftfe airman. Wfley IPbst, who had written his name in flyjng! history in large letters. Ann Morrow Jindbergh hat writ ten a eWJk, "North to the Orient" telling of her airplane trip with her husband to Japan and China in 1931. Reviewers say It's a swell story, well told, giving a real insight into the haracter of Lindbergh about whom, after all, we don't know much. Wslfo r XTnirnn h ftusebl" e&k ftUCl laP ceny; Claude Rice, resisting an offi cer and public drunkenness. INFORMATION FOR RURAL PATRONS Postmaster McDevitt Quotes From Postal Guide Most of us thought the newpaper put in circulation several years ago was to be keyt standard, so that we would become so familiar with it that it would be hard to counterfeit. But no the Treasury announces a n:w design, radically different, for one- dollar bills. The new money is now beihK printed. Forecasts of weather 100 years or mor. with a high degree of accuracy may become possible. Dr. Charles G. Abbott, of the Smithsonian Institute, made a seiies of forcasts in 1933 that tally almost perfectly with actual con jitiohs in 1934 and 1935. His meth od is bas;d oij the discovery that the weather goes in a strongly-marked 23 year cycle, and in an even more strongly marked 46 year cycle. Dr. Ralph Willard's latest frozen monkey experiment turned out badly. With a humane-society officer stand ins: over him, he worked for four hours, he says, to revive a monkey that had been frozen for some time. Suddenly the officer made him stop, saying the experiment was illegal. The monkey, returned to the ice-box, died comnjetely. Meanwhile, doctors and other scientists the nation over scoffed at the idea that anv animal, once frozen, could be brought back to life;v?Jce, tey say. in body) tissues, causes the cefls to burst, making it JURY LIST. Jurors for the August term of court at which Judge John M. Ogles by will preside, are follows: J. G Gardner; W. a Plemmons, Jackie Gentry, T. C. Oajk. R. W. Whitt W. J. Ray, JF. Goforth, W- i. rAna narrlann KrOWn, O. xl. !l CTB. C. Clark, R. H A. Edwards, W. T. Duckett, A. N. Woodyi, R. I WtX, l-'s'"-J E. Rice, Leroy Bishop, C. U Am mons. J. Woods Anderson, L. B. Mc Darris Ruben B. Randall, S. Brigman, tit v AnHprson. Starling Gentry, ar., In ' b. Duckett, George E. Robinson, Sr., O. J. Burnett, M. F. Reems, J. W. Robinson, H. E. Carver. 2. T. DilU J. B. McDevitt, Wallice Banks. D. A. Rogers, and REV. M. C WALTON PASSES 83rd BIRTHDAY I quote a few lines fryn the Pos tal Guide, that might be of interest to persons living on rural routes Sec. 1058. iPexsqos wishing to be come patrons of a rural route shall provide and erect, at their own ex pense, standard boxes of the No. 2 size, the manufacture of which has been approved by the department. The standard box is 23 and three sixteenth inches long. 11 inches wide and 13 and three eights inches high. Sec. 1062. More than one family, but not more than five families may use the same box. provided tha writ ten notice of agreement, signed by the prospective heads of families or individoals desiring to join in the use of such 4 box, shall be filed with the postmasW at the distributing office." Communis Is, considering asking for the extension of a rural route should take into consideration, the roads, bridges and number of boxes that are now up or that will be placed. The number of letters and daily pa pers received by ptrons on a proposed extension of a route is a valuable con sideration. The fact that 25 families live in a certain section and tget very few pieces of mail and no daily papers, is poor argument to get a rural exten on. A rural route that is not ratron ized by those living on it and is there fore a losing money proposition to the department, wilr sooner or later be considered unfavorable. The a- mount of postage a carrier sells and his salary should balance in ordeir tht the department may break even, Mars Hill Finishes New Athletic Field t)ddities: In Newburrh, N. Y., Mrs. Dorothv Sherwood, 27, was "oh, so happy)" after she'd killed her 2-year- old son by holding him under water in a creek until he drowned. But first she let him wade all he wanted to. . . . Mrs. Bettv Ann Kinser, Bloomington, Ind., said on her 109th birthday this week that she had decided to give up tobacco and liquor. "Maybe folks are right; maybe they ain't good for your health," she- said. . . . Sleep raw and be beautiful." was the advice given to the women of the U. S. by a Chi cago beauty expert last week. Many objected to this idea. One who ob jected was Chicago's fire chief, who pointed out that his men would have to carry garments as well as fire-hose with them when rescuing sleeping ladies from burning buildings. Miss Kathleen Elmore Weds Mr. Patterson Misa Kathleen Elmore, second daughter of Mrs. Edward Robert El more, became the bride of Mr. Francis Patterson of Rocky Mount, Saturday aiterjioon at 6:31) ajt the home oi the bride. A natural background of climbing clematis and lattice interlaced with mountain teenerv formed an altar before which the vows were qpoken. The Bey. P. C. Stringfield was the officiating minister. Th. bride and groom approached .the altar togeth er and without attendants. The bride was attired fn a white crepeT ensemble with white felt hat and Jll accessories in white. Her shoulder ? touquet was of Johanna Hill treses.-and blue delphinium. Mr?' Walter E. Wilkins of Mars Hill was at the piano and accompanied Mrs.- V. V: Stringfield of Mars Hill, who ang "Constancy" by Weber im mediately prior to the approach of the young couple. During: the cere- monj Mrs. George Leiby, of Bryson City, played on the violin, Schubert's "Serenade", acompanied bv Mrs. Stringfield. The weding march from Lohen:?rin was used for the proces sional ind the march by Mendelssohn for "the recessional. Aft informal reception on the lawn follpwed the g;remony, which was at tended by 35 quests.. Th? ice lubiu was jeovered with a Madeira cloth and! Centered with a three-tier d wedding Cake, beautifully decorated. Ciystal bowls of garden flowers were on either sid of the cake. The ices iservedswere moulded in the shape of wed ihtr slippers. Later in the evening Mr. and Mrs. Petterson left bv motor for a 10 days, honeymoon in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and upon its ycojnclusion will go to Rocky Mount, where they will reside. Fornierlv a teacher in the Wilming ton .high schools, the bride taught Spanish last year in the Claremont senior high" school of Hickory. She is a 'graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presi dent of' .the Spanish department of the North Carolina Educational asso ciation! and a member of the Ameri canyViotjation of S,panish Teachers. La& jy f .she served .on a state com mittee it r ; the adjustment of cur ricnla r f i "anish In the hurfi schools. it-Sir. : rsons is connected with the! Ik ; department-:, of ; j Rocky Mount , fonitarv -engineeikfor the ife;rteanf Alra N.rlJ Paterson and the late Mr. Fatterson of Fayetteville. HORRORS OF AUTO CRASHES ARE VIVIDLY SHOWN BY MAGAZINE Fortner Announces Hunting Schedules MARS HILL ADDS THREE TO STAFF Mr. C. F. Fortner, County Game Protector, has requested that we run the following information on open season and license fees for Madison County: For the season 1935-36, license fees are: Non-resident hunting li cense. jid.Zd; state Kesiaent Hunt ing license, $2.10; County resident hunting license, $1.10; Combination huntinc and fishinsr license. $3.10: State resident tapper's license, $3.25; County resident trappers license, $2.25. Open seasons for hunting are as follows: Bsar Oct. 1 to Jan. 1; O' posfium, Raccoon (dogs), Oct. 1 to Feb. 1 ; O'possum, raccoon, (trapping) Nov. 1 to Feb 15; Quail, Thanksgiv ii day to Feb. 15; Rabbit, Thanks- iWm-T day to Feb. 15; Squirrel, Sept. 1r Dec. 15. Licenses are on sale at the follow ing places: Clerk of Court, Marshall, N. C; C. D. Bowman, O. V. Rector's Hardware Store, Marshall; Guv G orge. Mars Hill; Chief 1'arris, Hot Splines; McClure & Ramsey. Walnut. J. P. ANDERSON TAKEN BY DEATH Mr. James Pinkney Anderson, af ter a brief illness, died at his home in Mars Hill Wednesday morning. The funeral services were held at the Mars Hill Baptist Church the next after noon at 3:30 o'clock, and interment was in the familv plot in the Mars Hill Cemetery. The Rev. . B. Oilve assisted by the Rev. J. R. Owen, pas tor of '4P French Broad Baptist Church of Asheyille, officiated. Mr. Anderson, who was 78 years of age, was a member of one of the largest and most influential families in lower Madison County. He was the son of the late Nathan Anderson, one of the pioneers of this section and prominent in the affairs of his county, Until, failing, health lately caused, his tetirejaeBvMr ndersoifr h' sfrlfjictive In the tcbnonu&ancHjoewi- development of tne - community. SCHOOL OPENING AGAIN PUT OFF Under advice from the County Health Officer and due to the fact that text books are not ready for distribution, the opening of all schools has been postponed until Sep tember 2, 1935. J. O. WELLS, Superintendent Boll weevil has appeared in the cotton fields of piedmont Carolina, according to reports from Lincoln and adjacent counties. Announcement wasi made this week bv President R. L. Moore of the addition of three new members to the teaching staff of Mars Hill Col-stte. Actine- dean of women, during the absence for part of the term of Miss Pierce, will be Mrs. Lula V. Kogers, who has been matron and dean of women at Carson-Newman college at Jefferson City, Tenn. She will oc cupy the apartment now occupied by Dr. and Mrs. O. E. Sams after they move about the first of September to their recently remodelled home. Miss Velma Shaw will be nurse nnd will he in pharire. Of the physical education for. women. She ia a grad uate of 'Mars Hill and a graduate nurse, and has had considerable ex perience in both private and hospital nursing. Miss Florence Johnson, of Cross ill he. in charsTft of the secre tarial and business work. She will teach such subjects as shorthand, typewriting, and business English. Miss Johnson is a graduate of Mars Hill, Carson-Newman, and of the teachers' course in Bowling Green, Ky., business college. Her appoint ment is the result of great interest that has been shown in this depart ment, which was only recently added to the curriculum. Sinne parlv manhood he was a mem. ber of the Mars Hill Baptist Church. He is survived bv his widow, Mrs. Bertha Dillingham Anderson; seven children Gladys, Fred, Nancy. Es ther, Raymond, Ada and Charles; two brothers, John W. and O. J. An derson of Mars Hill. The following nephews of Mr. An derson served as pallbearers: Ralph Anderson, Jerome Anderson, N. P. Anderson, John Robert Anderson, Richardson Anderson, Herbert An- lerson, Harry Lee Anderson, and William Runnion. Flower girls were Misses Jamie Anderson, Ruth Anderson. Bettie Anderson, Catherine Anderson, Paul ine Young, Mattie Briggs, Louise Anderson and Annie Younc. Honorarv pallbearers were: W. H. Anderson, Ned Anderson, Nathan Runnion, Job? Gardner. R. L. Moore, L. Z. Eller, Francis Anderson, W. L. George, Fred Holcombe. George Anderson, Dr. W. u- KoDinson, u. M. Robinson, Bud Stines, R. S. Gibbs, C. C. Bruce Jim Ramsey, Dr. E. I. Rnmptt. Willard Anderson. Mitt Anderson, Lee Carter, Kenneth An derson, Lee Sams, and Woodson An derson. Textbook Plan Is Approved in Raleigh Publicising the total of motor in juries almost 1,000,000 last year, with 36,000 deaths never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring, declares F. C. Furnas ia the August issue of the Readers' Di gest. He then proceeds to trans late uv statistics into what he term "a realitif of blood and agony," m follows : Figures exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation which mean they leave""but the point. They need to be brought closer home. A pasing look at a dab smash or the news that a fellow you had lunch with last week is in hospital with a broken back will make any driver but a born fool slow tv down at least temporarily. But what y , is needed is a vivid and sustained realization that every time you step; on the throttle, death gets in besida you, hojpefully waiting for his chance. That single horrible aeident you may have witnessed is no isolated horror. That sort of' thing happe.is every hour of the day, everywhere in the I United States. If you reallv want j United States. If you really felt j that, perhaps the stickful of type i in Monday's paper recording that a total of 2'.i local citizens were, killed in week-end crashes would rate sorae I thing more than a perfunctorv tut-tut as you turn back to the sports page. An interprising judge now and again sentences reckless drivers to tour the accident end of a city morgue. But even a mangled body on a slab, waxily iportrayinsT the con sequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patcji on the scene of the ac cident itselt. No artist working on. a saf ety poster would dare depict that in full detail. That picture would have to in clude motion-picture and sound ef fects, too the flopping, pointless ef forts of the injured to stand up; the queer. grunTing noises,; the steady, ipanting groan of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wers off. It should portrav the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at th Z-twist in his. broken leg the insans crumpled effect of a child's body after;" its bones are i. crushed inward a.frealistic, tiortraittbf an hysterical , 1 j,-, opening a hole in the bloody dripi that ' fills her eyes and runs off her chin. Minor details would include the raw ends of bones protruding through flesh in compound fractures, and the dark red, oozing surfaces where skin and clothes were flayed off at once. Those are all atanderd, everyday sequels to the modern pssion for go ing places In a hurry and taking at chance or two by the way. PRINCIPALS TO MEET FRIDAY There will be a meeting of the school .principals at the courthouse in Marshall, Friday, August 23 at 9:30 o'clock. Dr. J. Henry High smith from the state department of education will be the principal speaker. SAYS COUNTY AGENTS DID GREAT WORK .. VtV. Quite a number of our readers will remember the Sv-TMl'e Walton, father of Mr. Jack Walton, , druggist in MarshaU for some rw.??' N. C. Tne lamer cucui.i. v---birthday Tuesday of last week at his home near, wiimingwm w . niirtetToSinff : '' At Walnut Church - - ' :' - s ' nv. KtAr Harmony Kings, colored ouarteU Jjjjym BaptUt Church, Sunday September 1 Bantist Church on Sunday. September first. All x invited. Today saw the completion of all grading for the new Athletic Held at Mars Hill Colle&e. This field bids for recognition among the better fields of tiie country. Around the field is a 44(1 yard track which con tains no sharp curves and there ara three straightaways : for more than 100 murds. The new field also con tains a football and baseball field sep arate from each other... Present plans call for a blue grass sod, the seed for which will be sown tnts coming spring. Coac'j Roberts rJTt that he has a reamed lor 15 years of seeing Mars Hill College with an up-to-date ath letic plant, and those dreams are about to be realised. f Present plans call for a concrete stadium on tht new field in the near future, as already one-half of the necessary money has bees promised. IB'' I TAXPAYERS READ EVERY WORD OF THIS NOTICE Several persons have written to Jeter P Ramsey, Register off Deeds, in ra-gard te the listing of taxes. Mr. Ramsey has nothing to do with the listing of taxes or the appointment of the tax supervisor. Address your correspondence to E. W. REECE. I am now making a list of all persona in Madison County known to have diamonds not listed for taxes. All diamond rings, brooches, etc., must be listed at once. List such property not : later than -August 81 and save yourself the embarrassment of receiving a personal notice- through the mail. All money on hand the first day of April must be listed. Take friend's advice and have such money listed before you find yourself, in an embarrassing position. One man listed $675., another $800. You are also good citiaen (just an oversight) ; list your money not later than August 31. . E.W. REECE TAX SUPERVISOR . ii ,i ii a f ' Textbooks for schools through out the state should be ready for distribution on or before September irw nrcorHino- to a statement Tuesday bv E. N. Peeler, secretary of the state textbook rental and purchase com mission. He said that a proposal submitted bv the publishers concern ing the purchase of the books had been approved by the commission, though full details of the agreement have yet to be worked out. The operation of the rental system has alreadav been arranged for, he said, and will be ready to go into operation immediately. Peeler would not say whether the purchase plan included the elimina tion of thei publishers aserfts' com missions on the sales, which have been a point of controversy in arriv ing at an agreement. The publishers maintains that such a clan would mount to a reduction in the price of the books, which would lore tnem 10 cut their prices on other sales. Reader Criticizes School System Writing in the July-August issue of the official magazine of the Pot ash Institute, Better Crops With. Plant Food, Jeff McDermid reminds t.ie nation that the county farm agents (Continued on last page) f TEN YEARS AGO IN MARSHALL From the NEWS-RECORD Files Five automobile crashes in one night near Marshall that ,was the score run up Tuesday night between six and one o'clock. One man, Wal ter M. Davis, of Knoicviile, wag fatally injured when his car turned over nine times as it fell from n embank ment on the highway. Earlier in the evening, a Nash hit a Ford head on, injuring two small children, and Paul Hensley received a broken hip when his wrecking car was pulled over a bank while trying to get the Ford back onto the road. The other accidents were not' 6o serious, though several are in hospitals as a result. NewsrRecord, MarshaU. N. C. . - For aometime I have had in mind to write about a subject close to the title of your Heard and Seen column, not cruite but as such, Heard and not exactly seen as the courts do not take heard for facta but those seen. As I do not wish to hurt anybody's feel ings, let's take the old consolations saying, "Oh you can't please every body." ' The point: Just in a few "days our Mars Hill College opened with record enrollment this week, and fine year is expected. Madison Countv will have three) ttanderd high schools this year: Mar shall, Mars Hill and Walnut. But more are needed. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baley, Miss Louise and Master Billy returned to Atlanta Sunday after spending the weekend with Mr. and Mrs, J. 'M. Baley, Miss Evelyn and lames and Billy. . From Bailey Branch: Mr. Georrc Ansband's tobacco has grown Vso targe that he has to get on his. knees to top it. We thought he wore hiav overalls' knees out praying for rain. , but found out he wort them. out topping tobacco. : -. ,i (Continued on ltt rage; .